{"id":871,"date":"2009-06-09T14:04:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T14:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/06\/09\/troy-scott-64-writes\/"},"modified":"2009-06-09T14:04:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T14:04:33","slug":"troy-scott-64-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/06\/09\/troy-scott-64-writes\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Scott &#039;64 Writes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on my back to Dallas yesterday afternoon thankful&nbsp;that your efforts as well as countless others had allowed me to&nbsp;accomplish all of my &quot;bash goals&quot;. &nbsp;I had reconnected with men I had&nbsp;not seen for over four decades. &nbsp;I got to visit once again with Coach&nbsp;Bob Brock and enjoy his dry wit and twinkle. &nbsp;I walked the length and&nbsp;breadth of the campus and, I am sure, visited places I had never seen&nbsp;as a student. &nbsp;I got a few &quot;stories&quot; off my chest in the Scarlet Yarns&nbsp;room. &nbsp;I revisited Goodrich Hall and reassured myself that there were&nbsp;indeed only ninety-three elements in the periodic table, just as&nbsp;Professor Haenisch had taught me, and clearly recognized that any&nbsp;element found after 1964 was man-made and fraudulent. &nbsp;I saw students&nbsp;and alumni and staff all working in a purposeful and dedicated fashion&nbsp;toward the same goals. &nbsp;My greatest surprise, and I am sure you have&nbsp;heard this before, was that although only 5 or 6% of our lives were&nbsp;spent together my core group of college friends did not spend two days&nbsp;and nights talking about the other 95% of our lives since our &nbsp;graduation. &nbsp;Indeed, only a small amount of time was &quot;wasted&quot; on job&nbsp;careers, family, etc. &nbsp;Rather,the compressed amount of time we spent&nbsp;together at Wabash was tilled so that these precious few &quot;nuggets&quot; of&nbsp;collective remembrances were unearthed, and sifted, and revisited, and&nbsp;lied about&#8230;&#8230;.. then replanted in the ground for harvesting again&nbsp;and again in the thanksgivings of our lives&#8230;&#8230;thanks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Troy Scott&#8217;64<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on my back to Dallas yesterday afternoon thankful&nbsp;that your efforts as well as countless others had allowed me to&nbsp;accomplish all of my &quot;bash goals&quot;. &nbsp;I had reconnected with men I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}